2011
24 eps
TV Saitama / Crunchyroll
Sci Fi Thriller Drama
A self-proclaimed mad scientist accidentally invents a method of sending messages to the past using a microwave. What starts as gleeful tinkering becomes a nightmare when he realiz…
Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. Same cerebral and dark energy throughout.
2021
6 eps
Apple TV+
Sci Fi Mystery Thriller
Ko Sewon is a neuroscientist who developed the technology to sync his brain with the recently deceased — absorbing their memories and emotions to solve mysteries. When his own fami…
Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same cerebral and dark energy throughout.
2023
10 eps
Disney+
Crime Thriller Mystery
A former genius detective, now a reclusive puzzle constructor, is pulled back into an active case when a series of murders with perfectly crafted puzzles left at each scene seems d…
Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same mysterious and tense energy throughout.
2017
12 eps
tvN
Sci Fi Thriller Mystery
Two parallel timelines unfold simultaneously: in 2017, a college student investigates his brother's disappearance and encounters a woman who may not be human; in 2037, a detective …
Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same mysterious and tense energy throughout.
2020
16 eps
MBC
Thriller Mystery Sci Fi
A man in 2020 and a woman in 2019 are mysteriously connected by a one-minute daily window across time, working together across the temporal gap to change both their fates.
Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. Same mysterious and tense energy throughout.
2016
12 eps
Fuji TV / Crunchyroll
Mystery Thriller Sci Fi
Satoru Fujinuma has an involuntary ability: he gets sent back in time moments before a disaster, just far enough to prevent it. When his mother is murdered, the ability sends him b…
Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.
2022
10 eps
Disney+
Sci Fi Thriller Mystery
A government worker discovers a mysterious woman from the future is connected to a dangerous fugitive and the fate of humanity.
Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.
2025
16 eps
SBS
Thriller Drama Mystery
An investigative journalist known for exposing corporate corruption discovers that her latest target — a pharmaceutical empire hiding fatal drug trial data — is connected to her ow…
Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.
2023
12 eps
tvN
Thriller Mystery Drama
Cha Se-eum is a world-renowned orchestra conductor who returns to Korea to lead a struggling regional philharmonic — and discovers that the musicians, the board, and the city itsel…
Same mysterious and tense energy throughout.
2024
12 eps
MBC
Thriller Mystery Crime
A detective wakes up in a hospital with no memory, covered in someone else's blood, and holding a wedding ring that isn't his. As he reconstructs his identity, every clue suggests …
Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same mysterious and tense energy throughout.